Some thoughts on Audacious in Fedora
by Michael Schwendt
As the Fedora 14 update of Audacious from 2.4.0 to 2.4.3 has not been
smooth at all and is still annoying users, who need 3rd party plugin
packages which still haven't been pushed, the following consequences are
arising IMO:
Fedora 13
I'm offering Audacious 2.2 (audacious-2.2-16 and audacious-plugins-2.2-38)
in Fedora 13 to anyone interested in taking over. In other words, consider
Audacious in Fedora 13 semi-orphaned.
In my point of view, it works well enough that it doesn't need an upgrade
to 2.4.x. Though, a lot has changed in the 2.4 series, and certainly there
are additional bug-fixes included. If to be upgraded in Fedora 13, this
would need the cooperation (and extra-work) of 3rd party plugin package
providers. Special precautions are to be taken as not to repeat the
problems we've run into with this recent update in Fedora 14. Whether
Fedora 13 is "new enough" with regard to all dependencies remains to be
examined by whomever. I believe that users with interest in later software
ought to upgrade to Fedora 14.
Fedora 14
Even before a strong RPM dependency in 3rd party plugin packages is
available to prevent breaking of decoder plugins, I have created a custom
repository for Audacious 2.5-alpha1 - which btw breaks the Plugin API
again and requires actual code changes and not just rebuilds:
http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/mschwendt/audacious-2.5/fedora-audaci...
This is not only for users to take a sneak peek at Audacious 2.5 development,
but also to emphasize that the dependency on 3rd party plugin packages can
be problematic.
13 years, 2 months
Printing in 64-Bit Google-Chrome fails
by Max Pyziur
Greetings,
I am now favoring Google Chrome over Firefox and Galeon; I use both on my
i386 Dell Laptop and 64Bit Desktop. From either Galeon or Firefox on both
machines printing functions correctly.
Using Google-Chrome, printing functions correctly on the i386 laptop, but
fails on the 64Bit desktop (it prints multiple pages of occasional
gibberish).
Any suggestions?
Much thanks,
Max Pyziur
pyz(a)brama.com
13 years, 2 months
F14 - choosing right motherboard question
by Cristian Sava
Hi all,
We want to move to Intel Sandy Bridge platform and install F14 x64 on
them.
Are Gigabyte GA-H67MA-UD2H and Asus P8H67-M EVO compatible with F14?
If not what about Intel DH67GD ?
We want very good performance (build in graphics), stable and long life
products.
C. Sava
13 years, 2 months
Slow Mirror: mirror.sr.unh.edu
by Michael Cronenworth
I was trying to install OpenOffice.org on a fresh F14 machine and
encountered a very slow mirror (mirror.sr.unh.edu). Yum was averaging
85kb/sec speed. The machine downloading can easily pull 25mbit/sec in a
speed test. Anyone else encountered this?
The mirror's page says that they are only using 7% of their bandwidth,
so it doesn't seem like they're overloaded. I know Matt sometimes
frequents this list, so if you see this, this is an FYI.
Michael
13 years, 2 months
httpd cannot connect via TLS to LDAP server after upgrade to fedora 14
by Ldap Tester
After upgrading a machine from fedora 13 to fedora 14 (with all
updates), I was suddenly unable to get its httpd to authenticate
with my LDAP servers. After connecting my browser to the web server
with https, and typing in my username and password,
I get an Internal Server Error response.
My configuration is:
LDAPTrustedGlobalCert CA_BASE64 /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
LDAPTrustedGlobalCert CA_BASE64 /etc/openldap/cacerts/cacert.asc
<Directory /var/www/html/ssl>
AuthType Basic
AuthName "User Login"
AuthBasicProvider ldap
AuthLDAPURL "ldap://serv1.foo.org serv2.foo.org/dc=foo,dc=org" TLS
AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off
require valid-user
SSLOptions +StrictRequire
SSLRequireSSL
</Directory>
The httpd debugging log shows:
auth_ldap authenticate: user XXXX authentication failed;
URI /ssl/staff/index.shtml
[LDAP: ldap_start_tls_s() failed][Connect error]
Changing AuthLDAPURL to use SSL instead of TLS also fails but with:
[LDAP: ldap_simple_bind_s() failed][Can't contact LDAP server]
tcpdump shows that the httpd client connects to the LDAP server,
and is sent:
Start TLSrequest accepted Server willing to negotiate SSL
but no certificate info is exchanged and the client quickly closes
the connection.
Changing AuthLDAPURL to use NONE makes it connect successfully.
serv1 uses a cert purchased from GoDaddy,
and serv2 uses a self signed cert
(which is /etc/openldap/cacerts/cacert.asc).
Both servers are 389-ds.
Both certs mentioned in LDAPTrustedGlobalCert are valid and world
readable. ldapsearch is able to connect to both servers with TLS.
On another machine with the same httpd configuration, but still at
fedora 13, httpd is able to connect securely even
without the LDAPTrustedGlobalCert lines.
As a side note, after upgrading to fedora 14, I had to add
tls_cacertfile /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
to /etc/nss_ldap.conf and /etc/pam_ldap.conf
and also add
TLS_CACERT /etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
to /etc/openldap/ldap.conf
in order to get those to work.
Under fedora 13, everything worked without those lines.
I don't know if this is a problem with httpd's mod_authnz_ldap
or its mod_ldap or with openldap, or just a configuration mistake
on my part, but it used to work before the upgrade.
I have searched all over for an answer to this problem
because I can't believe that I am the only one having it,
but I have found nothing.
I welcome any ideas.
13 years, 2 months
Help coming up to speed
by don fisher
Sorry for the length:-) I have used RedHat/Fedora since the company
started. But for the last few years (since F9) I have been doing
science. I tried to install F14 and found many changes. Much of what one
used accomplish by editing configuration files is now done using GUIs
under Gnome.
I would like to know how the system works at the configuration file
level. What are the switches that can be included on the kernel command
line? Is there any way to control Plymouth so that the commands are
visible and one drops to a login prompt at the end? What is upstart
calling and what files does it modify? When one configures a dual head
display under gnome, what tools are used and what files are modified?
What auto configurations are controlled by HAL and udev and whatever?
Is there a document or book that can purchased/downloaded that explains
what is going on under the covers? I have found fragments via Google.
The software development I preform does not lend itself well to the
desktop environment. Most of my work is done from the command line
and/or under emacs. I currently use fvwm2 with a 6X6 grid of desktops.
If this query is not appropriate for this list, please suggest the
alternative.
Thanks,
don
13 years, 2 months
zfs works in fedora
by ann kok
Hi
ls zfs working in fedora? Can you share?
I can't install it in fedora14
Thank you
13 years, 2 months
OT: bash question
by Mike Wright
Hi all,
Not sure where to find the answer to this question. Google wasn't
helpful. The users on this list are a great repository of knowledge so
I thought to try here.
Is there a bash command that tells an executing script what *its* path
is? Not the path where the user is but where the script is. If not
that then a series of commands that yield the same result? Maybe some
way of using 'ps'?
Has me stumped and my dog-eared "UNIX in a Nutshell" hasn't exposed the
goodies either ;)
TIA,
Mike Wright
13 years, 2 months
outout format of time command
by Adel ESSAFI
Hello,
I have followed the man page of time commande to put a certain output
format.
However, time command does not recognise -f option.
Could you help please.
[adel@localhost generateInstance]$ time -f "%e" ls
bash: -f: command not found
real 0m0.001s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.000s
[adel@localhost generateInstance]$
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13 years, 2 months